Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 2000

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 2000

The "transcendent and immortal ... HEEP!": class consciousness, narrative authority, and the gothic in 'David Copperfield'.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Uriah Heep)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... He is likened to a fox, baboon, ape, vulture, bat, hound, scarecrow, fish, frog, snail, eel, hangman, devil, skeleton, cadaver, mask, incubus, and carved grotesque; he likens himself, as a lawyer, to sharks and leeches. George Orwell wrote of...

The enormous power of no body: 'Little Dorrit' and the logic of expansion.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The power of Nobody is becoming so enormous in England, and he alone is responsible for so many proceedings, both in the way of commission and omission; he has so much to answer for, and is so constantly called to account; that...

The web of necessity: George Eliot's theory of ideology.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The medium: For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal--this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled...

"We children were the in-betweens": character (de)formation in 'Sons and Lovers'.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... And so it was written: "The Word was made Flesh," then, as corollary, "And of the Flesh was made Flesh-of-the-Flesh, woman." This is... backward... the whole chronology is upside-down: the Word created Man, and Man lay down...

"Anacreon,' and drink poetry; or, the art of feeling very, very good.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... The story of Anacreon is an extraordinary literary phenomenon. It is the history of a ghost-poet, a poet who did and did not exist but who had an enormous and lasting influence on European poetry. (Tom Mason) ...